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Paperback - Gollancz (2007)

Cowboy Angels

The first Turing gate, no bigger than a fleck of dust, is forced open in 1963, at the high-energy physics laboratory in Brookhaven; three years later, the first man to enter an alternate history is sent through a much larger version, and an empire is born.

For fifteen years, the version of America that calls itself the Real has used Turing gates to infiltrate a wide variety of alternate Americas, rebuilding those wrecked by nuclear war, and fomenting revolutions to free others from Communist or Fascist rule, establishing a Pan-American Alliance. Then a nation exhausted by endless strife elects Jimmy Carter on a reconstruction and reconciliation ticket, and the Real begins to wage peace instead of war.
But some people believe that it is the Real’s manifest destiny to impose its idea of truth, justice and the American way in every known alternate history, and they’re prepared to do anything to reverse Carter’s peacenik doctrine. Adam Stone, one of the CIG’s covert field agents, or Cowboy Angels, volunteers for reactivation after an old friend begins a killing spree across alternate histories. His mission uncovers a startling secret about the operation of the Turing gates, and leads him into the heart of an audacious conspiracy to change the history of every America in the multiverse - including our own.
Cowboy Angels is a vivid, helter-skelter thriller in which one version of America discovers the true cost of empire-building, and one man discovers that an individual really can make a difference.
‘McAuley has Len Deighton’s gift for smuggling useful knowledge into a gripping tale’ New Scientist
`One of our most versatile and talented writers’ Publishers Weekly

First British Edition Simon & Schuster (2005)

Mind's Eye
When Alfie Flowers chances on a strange piece of graffiti daubed on the window of a north London restaurant, the violence of his reaction takes him by surprise. The thorny circle of dashes and zigzags reaches right inside his brain and triggers a flashback to a terrifying childhood accident that left him with a peculiar form of epilepsy.
Convinced that the elusive graffiti artist, ‘Morph’, possesses clues to his past, Alfie sets out to track him down. His search, taking him down the back alleys of London’s street culture and involving him in a series of spectacularly gruesome murders, leads to the mysterious Nomads’ Club, the rituals of a lost tribe, and a secret history of espionage and mind-altering patterns - glyphs - connected with the disappearance of his father some twenty years before.
But the real source of the glyphs is hidden amidst e chaos of post-war Iraq. There, deep inside an ancient network of caves, lie powerful secrets sought by people with sinister and dangerous motives. People who are determined to do whatever it takes to prevent Alfie and the Nomads’ Club from interfering with their plans.
Paul McAuley’s mesmerizing new thriller combines breathless suspense with frighteningly plausible speculations on mind control, whose consequences are almost too horrifying to contemplate.
Praise for Paul Mcauley
‘This is the book Michael Crichton would write if only he could do believable characters and hard science that gripped’ Guardian
‘McAuley has Len Deighton’s gift for smuggling useful knowledge into a gripping tale’ New Scientist
‘The dedicated detective makes a personable but flawed hero in this fast-paced, complex thriller’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A chilling thriller from one of Britain’s best SF writers, now turning to crime fiction with awesome ease’ Guardian

Paperback - Pocket Books (2005)

First British Edition Simon & Schuster (2004)

White Devils

‘They came out of the fields, out of the trees ... They were everywhere. That is when I ran. I was running for the helicopter, and I did not see anything.’ William Ndinga nods slowly, thinking things through, getting his story straight. I did not see anything. And it would be better for you if you did not see anything either.’

Nicholas Hyde is a volunteer working with a humanitarian charity in the chaos of the new Africa, a continent torn apart by civil war, plague, and rogue biotechnology. While investigating a fresh massacre in the swamp-forests of the Congo, Nick’s team is ambushed. Small, ape-like creatures - pale, fierce, and preternaturally strong - slaughter most of the team in a matter of minutes. Only Nick and the team’s government-appointed observer, William Ndinga, manage to escape, taking with them the body of one of their attackers.
Un diable blanc. William Ndinga calls it - a ‘white devil’- but after the rescue he falls in with the official story and quickly recants, claiming instead that he saw only rebel troops in body paint, drugged into a battle frenzy. Nick is strongly advised to go along with the cover-up, which seems to originate inside the multinational company that effectively owns the Congo. Shell-shocked and angry, he refuses to cooperate. He knows what he saw, and is determined to speak for his dead -for the truth. But then the body of the white devil disappears, and people around him start to die.
Only by exposing the secret behind the white devils can Nick protect himself from the forces arrayed against him. Flung together with Teddy Yssel, a bush pilot who survived an earlier attack by the white devils, and Elspeth Faber, who is seeking justice after the murder of her scientist father, he faces a desperate journey into the heart of darkness of 21st century Africa: the Dead Zone. But Cody Corbin, mercenary, evangelist and self-styled eco-terrorist, is heading for the Dead Zone too, with plans to cleanse the abominations from God’s good Earth, and anyone who gets in his way is going straight to Hell...
Award winning author Paul McAuley has produced a thought-provoking, heart-stopping, white-knuckle ride through a near future Africa transformed by plague, corporate greed, and the dark side of biotechnology. Combining the vision of Michael Crichton, the suspense of Thomas Harris and the taut pacing of John Grisham, White Devils is the first genuine 21st century thriller. After this, everything else is history.
Praise for White Devils
‘Crackling with fast and brutal action ... grips until the very last page’ Guardian
‘Stunning proof that McAuley now leads the world in science thrillers ... Jaw-droppingly good’ Michael Marshall
‘Exhilarates on all levels: the ideas quite as forcefully realised as the machine-tooled plotting’ Independent
‘In White Devils Paul McAuley has delivered a hard-edged near-future biotech thriller, and he sets a new standard in the field. Reading this book I couldn’t put it down. Having read it I’ll never set it aside’ Stephen Baxter
‘Cool, elegant and frightening – a convincing visit to a near future Heart of Darkness’ Greg Bear

British Pbk Original - Voyager (2002)

Whole Wide World
Watching the dead girl
Watching the lone cop.
Waiting to strike
In a world where information is the universal currency, some people will do anything to control it...
London, two years after the InfoWar when terrorists brought down the Internet, equalized the nation’s bank accounts at zero and attacked the City. Now the cameras are everywhere. But there’s a flaw in the system, a way of outwitting its cold eye, and someone has been murdered because of it. In the ruins of smashed computers around the body of a girl, a police officer who has been sidelined to a backwater department sees a way to return to active duty. But the CCTVs are in the control of people who would rather he did not solve the crime.
‘A chilling thriller’ Guardian
‘Whole Wide World functions well as both thriller and sci-fi, and explores the impact of technology on privacy and freedom .., a quality novel’ Time Out
‘The dedicated detective makes a personable but flawed hero in this fast-paced, complex thriller’ Sunday Telegraph

First British Edition Gollancz (2001)

Futures
The second Foursight anthology, edited and introduced by Peter Crowther
Four new novellas from the very best of British SF writers
Futures brings together new fiction from four of the very best SF writers working today. It is a snapshot look at why British SF is dominating the world market at the moment.
Whether describing a far future of alien domination, a very different present ruled by Imperial Roman families, the distant moons of the solar system brutally subjugated by Earth or an Africa changed out of all recognition by alien life, Futures presents four crystal clear examples of just why home-grown SF is going through such a boom.
Whether you are looking for the perfect introduction to the genre as a whole or want to pick up a brand new novella from your own personal favourite author Futures is the place to look.
Brought together by leading anthologist and editor Peter Crowther, Futures is an essential showcase of what makes British SF the dominant force in the genre as we enter the third millennium.
Reality Dust by Stephen Baxter
`Space Opera - the grind and the glorious, the truly operatic and infinite, worthy successor to tales of Greek gods and the Norse Sagas - is alive and well, and in very good hands. In short, Stephen Baxter is hard at work keeping and advancing the necessary forms and traditions, expanding the discourse in a way that both gladdens the heart and sends chills up the spines of his fellow writers’ Greg Bear
Watching Trees Grow by Peter F. Hamilton
`Peter Hamilton has written a murder story covering several centuries, in which the solution depends upon the sociology of immortal families evolved during the Roman Empire and upon forensic techniques that change massively during the course of the story. But Watching Trees Grow is a mystery and the surest way to really tell you what Hamilton has accomplished is to blow away all his secrets. You may want to read the story first’ Larry Niven
Making History by Paul McAuley
‘I find it surprisingly difficult to articulate why I so intensely admire Paul McAuley’s work. Perhaps the problem is simply that it is so uniformly excellent. Once I say that I admire his fine, clean, prose, the clarity of his plotting, the originality of his ideas, his understanding of science, and the quality of his characterisation, what else is there to say? To list his good qualities is the same as to list those things I like about science fiction’ Michael Swanwick Tendeleo’s Story by Ian McDonald
‘Ian McDonald’s Chaga stories remind me of J.G.Ballard’s ‘Vermillion Sands’ stories in the way they return repeatedly to a single vividly imagined background but approach it from a different point of view in each visit. What McDonald seems to be doing is reinventing for the new century a whole host of existing science-fictional concepts, transforming them through the power of his prose and the intensity of his vision just as the mysterious Chaga invaders have transformed the Africa of his stories. He leaves us much the richer for his efforts.

About The Author
With his debut novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, Paul J. McAuley became the first British author to win the prestigious Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. His fifth novel won the Arthur C Clarke and the John W Campbell Awards.
Born in Gloucestershire in 1955, he has a doctorate in botany and has worked as a research scientist in California and the United Kingdom. He is a frequent contributor to American science fiction magazines as well as the British magazine Interzone. He lives in North London.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Players (Simon & Schuster, 2006)

Cowboy Angels (Gollancz, 2006) Gollancz Pbk Sep 07

Mind's Eye (Simon & Schuster, 2005)

White Devils (Simon & Schuster, 2004) Pocket Books Pbk Jul 05

Whole Wide World (Voyager Pbk, 2002)

Futures (Gollancz, 2001)

The Secret of Life (Voyager, 2001)

Ancients of Days (Gollancz, 1998) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Sep 99

Fairyland (Gollancz, 1995) Gollancz Pbk Aug 07

Pasquales Angel (Gollancz, 1994) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Sep 99

Eternal Light (Gollancz, 1991) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Sep 99

In Dreams

Shrine of Stars Gollancz Millenium Pbk Sep 00

Four Hundred Billion Stars

Red Dust

Secret Harmonies

The Invisible Country

Child of the River Vista Pbk 1998